Alagoas Travel Guide |
An introduction to the state of Alagoas in Northeastern Brazil.
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Maranhão Travel Guide |
An introduction to the Brazilian state of Maranhão, located in transition region between the Northeast and the Amazon.
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Oficina do Sabor: Brazilian Regional Contemporary Cuisine in Olinda, Pernambuco |
The Northeastern dishes at the Oficina de Sabor are hardly traditional in the true sense of the word. But the only thing Chef César Santos has borrowed from abroad is the French concept of cooking with local ingredients.
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Sergipe Travel Guide: Introduction |
Our overview of the state of Sergipe.
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J. Borges: Woodcut Print Artist from Bezerros, Pernambuco |
At kilometer 106 on the Luiz Gonzaga Highway (BR 232) stands a whitewashed building called the “Casa de Cultura Serra Negra.” Dank and cluttered inside, with its roadside location, it is reminiscent of an auto mechanics shop. For decades it served as Borges’ atelier and now houses children, nephews and cousins who followed him into the chapbook business. Borges has found new digs. Roomier and with better lighting, it still could pass for a simple country home. Visitors can purchase chapbooks, prints and original woodblock molds by a multi-talented artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions at places like Zurich’s Helmhaus Museum. Scholars point to Borges’ work to help explain why Brazil maintains a vibrant woodblock print tradition. Visitors to the workshop can get a glimpse of a vintage mechanical printing machine and, if they’re lucky, see the artist at work carving his next mold.
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Lajedo do Pai Mateus: Join Film Crews in the Backlands of Paraíba |
The Cariri region’s awe-inspiring landscape, strewn with granite boulders, is compared to Australia’s Devils Marbles, Namibia’s Erongo Mountains and Algeria’s Hoggar Mountains. It culminates in the Lajedo do Pai Mateus, an upside-down bowl topped by a rock called “the helmet.” Cariri is also home to some of Brazil’s most important archeological artifacts. One can almost imagine the legendary bandits of the Brazilian northeast roaming these ranges – as they have many times on the big screen. Indeed the area has become increasingly popular with film location scouts.
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| João Primo: São Luís do Maranhão (1998) |
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